In Marcus Conter’s A Light in the Silence, Brazilian musician Mateus has settled in Laval, Quebec, when his father summons him back to southern Brazil. Maria, the mother who held her four sons together, died only three months before her widower, Marlboro, summons them home...

Ronnie Sacco’s The Resonance Crossing is set in the authoritarian surveillance state of Dominia, and it follows a low-tier reclamation worker named Luca Ashbourne. In a world where people are forbidden to feel and where emotion is medicated, scored, and suppressed by the National Dominia...

Murder on Argus (Particle Death Book 1) by Shawn Conners is a science-fiction murder mystery set in deep space. Earth has long since died, and the survivors of humanity live in deep space on massive stations and suitable planets where habitation is possible. Ruling over...

Hillbilly Monk’s Brisket Wisdom by Billy Monk brings us a really wild premise that perfectly blends rural American life with some heavy psychological exploration. The book follows Billy, an eccentric Oklahoma man who spends his days smoking meat, running an illegal still, and rambling about...

Some relationships are shaped as much by time and distance as they are by love. Bella’s life completely changes the moment she first sets eyes on Rami in Bella and Rami by Isobel de Border. She’s an Australian schoolgirl living in India in the 1980s,...

R. A. Birk’s Miracle on Windy Point follows Todd Clancy, who leaves his wife Sally and their three sons at a floating restaurant moments before an earthquake tears apart the Oregon coast. While Todd fights through flooded roads, Sally escapes with restaurant owner Jimmy Johnson...

"This wasn’t some lazy mist drifting in for a nap. It slithered, serpentine and intentional -- malevolent as a living thing with a grudge.” Malice and death arrive hand in hand in Itsy Bitsy Spyder: Evolution, a novel by J.R. Larriba. And when they do,...

Cassian Dolton’s They Were Torn Asunder follows 11701, a twenty-five-year-old coal miner in the Rénlèi Republic, where the state placement test decides each citizen’s occupation and social standing. Unable to read, 11701 saves for her two annual days of leave so she can retake the...

Arshes is going after the Monster, her father Daelen StormTiger, to accomplish her ultimate mission: to stop the Monster from annihilating Tempestria. But that’s not the only threat Tempestria is facing. Time is running out as the decaying pocket dimension in which it is trapped...

In Embracing the Local: Extension Cords and All, when Glen Cantrell leaves the Bay Area for Twain Harte, California, he expects mountain life, not responsibility for keeping a business community afloat. Then he becomes president of the volunteer Twain Harte Area Chamber of Commerce as...

Little Bear Betty by Betty Pasghetti is a charming picture book that brings children into a delightful woodsy world. This is the story of a little bear named Betty, who's having a little trouble saying the word ‘spaghetti.’ For whatever reason, it keeps coming out...

In Disposable, Susan McAdam introduces Lilah Black, a twenty-four-year-old scholarship student who arrives at Augustine College with the baggage of a brutal childhood. She is raised by a Bible-thumping grandmother and a bitter mother who give more value to her late brother, whom they consider...

No One Sleeps by Townsend Walker is a thought-provoking collection of short fiction. ‘Nessun Dorma’, the first of the twenty works in this anthology, personifies suicidal thoughts in a way that forces you to ponder the meaning of life. The following entry, ‘As Ye Sow,'...

Sophia Toh’s The G.A.M.E. of Life is a memoir and coaching book built around the author’s search for a meaningful definition of success. After leaving Malaysia for the United States at eighteen, Toh entered business, eventually leading billion-dollar operations before becoming an executive coach. Those...

The Goat of Magalies: Home Is Where You Owe Something by Julian Redwood centers on Marie Botha, a deeply traumatized South African woman who is working as an English teacher in Taipei. Marie has spent most of her adult life running away from the dark...

Set in 1764 in colonial Pennsylvania, A Player's Exit by Terri Karsten follows newly widowed Penelope Corbitt, who has found a haven, along with her daughter Nabby and son Nathaniel, at a wayside tavern. Miles Tucker, the kind-hearted tavern owner, wants to marry her, but...

In Crowned in Vice: The Peloni Empire by Tiffany Persails, Teagan, always looking for her next fix, constantly finds herself at the mercy of Marcus, one of the prospective heirs to the Peloni family. However, when his cousin, Thomas, the second prospective heir, learns of...

Som Phin's The Love That History Erased follows Cambodian American software engineer Srey Rattana, who finds herself inhabiting the body of Lady Channary, the heroine of an Angkor-inspired fantasy novel Srey has been reading on her phone. Believing she knows Channary’s future, Srey decides to...

In Kevin Michael Flynn’s West Of Man, a twelve-year-old Irish boy arrives in America in 1908 and eventually becomes The Carpenter, a war veteran raising his son Michael in Old Town during 1929. When a secret organization operating through the city begins targeting his family,...

Aila is a young girl who is facing separation from her dad during a military deployment. The Dada Doll by Nina Rohrig follows her journey. Before his departure, Aila’s dad gives her a special doll to hold onto and hug tightly when she misses him....